okay, this weekend I encountered a series of wraiths and after a prolonged fight, with Geralt almost dying several times, I finally defeated the Noonwrath, and advanced 1 level with 1 ability point and hit the * hot key and VOILA it worked.....but then wouldn't work the rest of the weekend....weird, but does that point to a game problem and not necessarily a trainer problem?
I still think the last patch borked those. I have a pile of them and they've always worked until the last several days.
If it was a game problem the W3 forums would be full of people complaining. Might as well relax, CH will have to look at those whenever time permits.